For a number of years, academics have developed and examined data that clearly indicates that those Americans who identify politically as liberals are less happy than those who identify as conservative.
They say misery loves company, and that may be why liberals always want to extend their control over everyone and everything because they are miserable people. Thomas Byrne Edsall covers some of the survey evidence about the misery and unhappiness of liberals in a New York Times article back in October: Conservatives Are Happier Than Liberals. Discuss. Two similarly titled papers with markedly disparate conclusions illustrate the range of disagreement on